After clinching back-to-back victories on Top Chef Seasons 19 and 20, Chef Buddha Lo, a native Australian, opened Hüso in February 2025. Situated in Tribeca, you enter through Marky’s Caviar, a boutique renowned for its premium selections, including Lo’s own Saint Urgeon line. The restaurant’s name, derived from the Latin term for Beluga sturgeon, pays…
Review: Tony-nominated Maybe Happy Ending
Never has an intellectual exercise had such heart. The allegory is clear: two adults, deep into the routine of their second act, fighting to remain independent, resisting nostalgia, and yet slowly, inevitably, slipping into the patterns we all recognize. That’s where the play begins. It is the story of two robots trying desperately not to…
Review: The Tony-Nominated Death Becomes Her Is Gorgeously Performed, Wryly Camp, and Strangely Trapped in the Mirror
I had the great good fortune to see Death Becomes Her from the best seat in the house: front row, dead center. It’s my favorite perch because that’s where you get to see the work. The microbeats. The breath work. The sweat, spit, and precision that make up the muscle of live performance. Yes, I…
Review: Chez Josephine – A Broadway Lunch Worth the Curtain Call
It’s always a quiet delight when a restaurant you’d mostly written off earns a second look. I’ve been to Chez Josephine a handful of times over the years, usually coaxed by a friend who loves their lobster salad. And I’ve never been much for the bistro genre—too many steak frites, niçoise salads, and forced joie…
Review: Tony-Nominated Sunset Boulevard on Broadway Is Electrifying, Unnerving, and Might Be Lloyd Webber’s Best Work
I didn’t expect to come out of Sunset Boulevard thinking it might be my favorite Lloyd Webber score. But here we are. In Jamie Lloyd’s stark new Broadway revival, the music is the emotional architecture. With the sets stripped down to almost nothing,just black walls, projections, and a few brutalist gestures the score becomes the…